Everything is Connected

You know it all already. We are born, we eat, we live, we love, we fight, we die. We come from nothing and we return to nothing. It’s what happens in between that matters; and how we handle it, deal with our responsibilities and relationships to people and things make all the difference to the quality of our lives and the lives of the people and environment around us.

There are times in our lives when it’s easy to forget how connected everything is. Times when life gets a little too tough and stressful and we end up paying more attention to our own well being in a way that disregards the cost of the consequences to the world out there and everyone else that’s a part of it. Call it being selfish – not because we want to be but because circumstances forces us to be.

That’s how the world got into the state that it’s in now. Here’s a neat 20 minute video that explains it all.

On this website I’ll be exploring and adding videos and articles that help to expand and explain the rich and diverse complexity of the world we live in – complex but not complicated.

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A team of researchers from China, Germany and the U.S. has found that boson sampling with photons is a viable option for testing for quantum supremacy, despite photons leaking from a given test system. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the group describes testing the idea using photons emitted from a quantum dot. Read More

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Researchers have created a novel type of liquid one hundred million times more dilute than water and one million times thinner than air. The experiments exploit a fascinating quantum effect to produce droplets of this exotic phase of matter. […] Read More

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